Presidents Flashcards
1
Q
What happened under Abraham Lincoln?
A
- Emancipation Proclamation
2
Q
What happened under Andrew Johnson?
A
- Reconstruction
3
Q
What happened under Ulysses Grant?
A
- Failure of reconstruction
4
Q
What happened under Grover Cleveland?
A
- Haymarket Affair
- Pullman Strike - early strike action against president and govt.
- Plessy vs Ferguson - segregation legal
5
Q
What happened under Teddy Roosevelt?
A
- He met with Booker T, showed willingness to help AAs but did nothing about it
6
Q
What happened under Woodrow Wilson?
A
- NWLB
- He had racist tendencies
7
Q
What happened under Calvin Coolidge?
A
- Golden Age
- Sleeping Car Porters
- Welfare Capitalism
8
Q
What happened under FDR?
A
- New Deal
- Not publicly supportive of African American legislation
9
Q
What happened under Harry Truman?
A
- To Secure These Rights
10
Q
What happened under Eisenhower?
A
- Little Rock - fed. intervention to protect AAs
- Brown vs Board
11
Q
What happened under JFK?
A
- Proposed Civil Rights Bill but not passed
12
Q
What happened under LBJ?
A
- Passed Civil Rights Act 1964
- Passed Voting Rights Act 1965
13
Q
What happened under Richard Nixon?
A
- Affirmative action
- ‘Hand up not hand out’
- Education programmes
14
Q
What happened under Reagan?
A
- PATCO strike
- Block of MLK Day
15
Q
What happened under George Bush Sr?
A
- Rodney King Riots
- Return of burial grounds to NAs
